Course # 3804
Literacy Instruction for Children with Autism

Course Abstract

Children with autism are frequently excluded from literacy instruction due to inaccurate assumptions about their competency. This presentation will discuss important skills and strategies to address early literacy, phonological/phonemic awareness, phonics, sight word recognition, reading fluency, reading comprehension, and written language.

This course was recorded on April 20, 2010

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Love Tina Veale. She is very knowledgeable in the area of autism and language. This presentation was great and gave me great ideas to use with my kids with autism. Will absolutely refer to this course in the future. Loved the real life client therapy videos!!

It was relevant to what I do daily, and was presented in a clear, organized manner. I especially appreciated the videos of therapy sessions--so helpful to see the subtle ways the child was helped to experience success.

Veale connected "literacy for ASD" with general standards for literacy, emphasizing which areas needed focus within the general curriculum -- this made her suggestions practical for clinicians working in a school setting.

The videos were very nice, especially because the student was nonverbal. The ideas presented in the videos re: improving reading in a nonverbal student were excellent and can be implemented immediately and easily.

This presentation provided excellent practical information on what works and how to implement the information into therapy to improve literacy. Well paced, excellent examples during the presentation. Very worthwhile!

Course Presenter

Tina K. Veale

Tina K. Veale, Ph.D., CCC-SLP

Tina K. Veale, Ph.D., CCC-SLP teaches courses at Eastern Illinois University in research methods, child language disorders, neurology, and autism spectrum disorders. Dr. Veale owned and operated a private speech-language-hearing clinic in Cincinnati, Ohio for 28 years, and Wee Talk Preschool for children with developmental challenges for 9 years. She has worked as a clinical speech-language pathologist, educational/behavioral consultant, autism consultant, and special educator.

Disclosure: Instructor Disclosure: Not available. The content for this program was developed and published prior to the ASHA Continuing Education Board requiring instructional personnel to provide financial and nonfinancial disclosure statements.

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